Thomas



T. F. SOMERS.

CORSE.

APP'UCATION fI-LED JUNE 26, 19W- RENEWED AUG. 1,355,009.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THOMAS F. SOMERS, OF NEW YORK. N'. Y.

CORSET.

Patented Oct. 5, 1920.

Application f1ed June 26, 1918. Serial No. 242,042. Renewed August 12,1920. Serial No. 403,154.

To all whom it may concirn Bo it known that I. Tnonns F. Sonrisas, acitizen ol the United States. and residing at New York in the county ot'New York and State of i ew York, have invented rertain new and usefulImprovements in Corsets. of which the following is :1 specification.

This invention relates to corsets and hal particular referenre to theconstruction of the bodr sections where the pi ping is foiTned toreceive strengthening elemente. lt enr bodies n construction in which afolded re inforriug strip of 'fabric is sernred to the outer Wall of thepiping by novel means presenting an attractive Iand ornamentalappearanoe.

In the drawings,

Figure 1 is a. plan view of a portion of a corset emhmlyinpr invinvention and Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail srrtional View on the line2*?. of Fig. l.

The noi-sot as shown in the drawingr; enr bodies the usual side membri-all) and ll provided with the. usual hooks or oyen and in this instance lhave shown an upper soetion 12 of elastic nniterial. The main bodyportion is made. up of overlapiiing arrtions 13, 14 and 15 ofsubstantially iioirrlfistir fabric. The main body portion is :dan provided with the usual olastir supporters s shown in detail in Fig. 2 theadjacent sections such as 13 and 14 overlap the end 15 of the tuition 14being folded in when the article is rompleted and the folded end restingabove the inner free edge 1G of the section 12S, Interpoeed betweenthese ends is a strip of fabric. 17 folded on itself with its free edgeson the insideI terminating'gj in substantial coincidence with the endsof the parte 15 and 1G, A row of stitches 18 ero tends through theinfolded portion 15 of the Section 14.- at the extreme end where it isfolded and those stitches pass through the double thickness of the Strip17 and through the end'l ot' the memhertll thereby securing the partstogether. ln this Way the Atitrhes do not show on the outer Surface. i1separate. Strip 19 is stitched at Q0 and 21 to the nnder faces of theSection5 13 and 14 on oppoiiite sides ot' their overlapping portions,thus forming a pipingr which may reoeire :i strengthening element tosupport the roraot. The folded strip 1T may he niade of any `nitahlet'abrio and ot suitable color und the construrlion gives to the'finished article an attractivev appearance without being marred by anexpoaed Seam.

l. In a corset having a bodyv made up of a ipilnralit)v of overlappingsections, a, piping ronstrnction at the meeting edges emibodying aninfoldcd edge of the outer section. an interposed folded strip andstitches passing through the infolded portion of the outer section, thefolded strip and the inner soi-tion and a separate strip stitched toSaid tions on the. inner side at its margin.

In n Corset having a. body made. up of a plurality of sections, nypipingr construction at the meeting edges of sind sections. tho outerwall of which is com osod of the free edge of one section, an overapping;r and intolded edge of the other section sind a folded stripinterposed between Said overlapping edges with its free edges on theinside and its folded edge extending beyond the infolded edge of Silidoverlapping section, stitches passing through the free edge of saidfirst mentioned Section through both parte1 of the folded strip `andthrough the infolded portion of sai d second mentioned section at thefold, and the inner wall of Said piping being formed by a stripittitched to said sections at its mar in on opposite sides ot theiroverlapping o( (res.

1n testimony Whereof aflix my si mature.

THOMAS F. SO IRS.

